Also, I would suggest Jeff Peters' book on the CF XML Object:
http://www.cafepress.com/protonarts.50984013
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On Jan 1, 2007, at 8:31 PM, Andrew Powell wrote:
1. Read the XML file with CFFILE
2. Parse the xml string with xmlParse()
--optional, but recommended-- narrow your XML document down to an
array of of your data elements using xmlSearch() and the xPath to
your data
3. loop over data and do what you will with it (conditionals to
check, etc.)
4. write it back to the server or whatever storage space you are
using (database, etc.)
As far as writing back the whole XML doc, that may be a matter of
not using xmlSearch() and working with the whole document
instead. I'm not sure if xmlSearch() returns its array by
reference or by value. Someone else may be able to clear this up.
In the livedocs someone says that searches on the same XML doc are
NOT thread-safe within a shared scope. This leads me to think that
the array returned by xmlSearch() is returned is a reference to the
original xml doc. If that is the case, then you can just
manipulate that data in the array that xmlsearch() returns and then
write the original xml back to a string with changes intact. I
would not write it to an array of structs or a query if you're
going to write back as XML to the server or database. Just
manipulate the original XML doc and save the processing of conversion.
To write it back to the server, you just toString(myXMLObj) within
your CFFILE action="write" tag.
On Jan 1, 2007, at 8:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I've not really worked with XML and CF. I've gotten some basics
down, and have looked, but am iffy on my logic.
-You read the XML file
-Read the length of the data from the XmlChildren array
-Loop over the parsed XML to put things into a query
-Output data or whatever
-Now to get a specific 'record', you do the same above, except
putting an if statement in your loop to add things your query (or
select the specific item in the query)
-To add/ modify/ delete things, you do whatever to the query,
convert it to XML (or modify the XML object itself) and then
rewrite the XML file
This sounds cludgy to me, I've got to be missing something. What
if you have a large dataset (which I won't in this case)?
Thanks,
mcg
(Yes it's New Year's Day, but working on mom's website, and the
USC - MICH game isn't terribly interesting)
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